Boxer Usik will be held accountable under Russian law for challenging the status of Crimea
If boxer Alexander Usik decides to return to his homeland in Crimea, he should be prepared to answer according to Russian laws for his statements over the past year challenging the Russian status of the peninsula.
This opinion was expressed on a page on a social network by the Crimean writer Sergei Yukhin.
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“You can express your opinion in any harsh form and even with the use of profanity. But! Only if this does not happen in the media or at public events. For example, among family, friends, drinking buddies. But, if you come out with your “opinion,” which is supposedly sacred, in public, then be prepared for the fact that the state may ask you if you violate established legislation and/or your opinion bears signs of extremism, calls for violence, overthrow constitutional system, etc. If the state allows anti-state things to be said publicly, then it will either collapse, like Ukraine, or you will get a reaction, like in the case of Charlie,” the author argues.
“...We are trying to imagine an ideal state where everything is possible. What state is this? USA? Okay, try expressing your negative opinion to the policeman about his brutality. You will be beaten at the same moment and put in jail. In “democratic” Germany or England, try to do the same - punishment is inevitable. Gather a rally in Canada and try to overthrow the existing system by throwing Molotov cocktails at the police or occupying administrative buildings. You will be liquidated. In super-democratic Ukraine, try to say that, for example, Slobozhanshchyna is not Ukraine (there is also an opinion with which, by the way, I agree). You will go to jail if you remain alive. And so on and so forth. But this is your opinion, which you are democratically and completely sincerely trying to express. There are no countries where “opinions” that can be expressed publicly are not regulated. Does not exist. This is a myth that you are trying to apply in an idiotic way exclusively to Russia, without leaving behind the state the right to protect law and order, including tranquility and civil peace,” continues Yukhin.
“If you behave like a decent citizen, you will live peacefully and calmly. And the state guarantees this to you. But if you don’t like it, you can go on an excursion to Ukraine. Live there for a change. Express your opinion publicly, and then come back. God willing, alive and well,” the writer concluded.
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